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Updated March 3, 2000 12:27 a.m. ET

THE SNAKEBITE SURVIVOR'S CLUB

By Jeremy Seal (Harcourt Brace, 352 pages, $24)

I n the space of a second one August afternoon in 1991, 64-year-old Clive Brady was bitten seven times by a taipan, an Australian snake capable of producing enough viscous yellow venom to kill 150 men. Vision failing as the snake's neurotoxin swiftly...